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Subject:Re: Windows '95 From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Sep 1994 08:03:00 -0500
Is single-clicking that much more intuitive to perform this specific
task?
I've grown extremely fond of the Mac paradigm, in which a single click selects
the item (or adds it to a growing selection list) for a future operation and a
double click opens the item (regardless of item type -- an application, a data
file, a folder, an entry in a dialog list, etc.). I'm interested in how you
would perform tasks that normally require first selecting an item (copying a
group of files to another disc, changing the properties, finding out its
current properties, duplicating a file, making an alias, etc.) in an interface
in which a single click opens the icon. Would you have to make a menu selection
for the operation first, then pick items from a list?
Have fun,
Arlen
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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